The Truth About Port ArthurNozhin, E. K. (Evgenii Konstantinovich)
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The Truth About Port Arthur
Nozhin, E. K. (Evgenii Konstantinovich)
Lüshun (China) -- History -- Siege, 1904-1905
Light guns 2
_Fort No. 6._
42-line guns 4
Light guns 4
Machine-guns 2
Rocket troughs 3
_Salt Battery._
Light guns 4
_White Wolf Battery._
Light guns 4
Rocket troughs 2
_By the Lighthouse on Liao-tieh-shan._
6-inch guns (68 cwt.) 2
Baranovsky guns 2
_Sent to the Bays--Pigeon, Louisa, Ten Ships, Shaopingtao Lunwantun,
and Takhe._
Baranovsky guns 4
Machine-guns 3
_On the Redoubts of the Central Wall._
By the slaughter-house 2 light guns
No. 1 (Artillery) 2 "
No. 2 (Engineer) 2 "
No. 3 (Sapper) 2 "
No. 4 (Powder) 2 42-line guns
Between Batteries 20 and 21 10 light guns
Summary.
Thus, by March 14 there were mounted ready for action on the land front:
6-inch guns (43 cwt. and 68 cwt.) and
42-line guns 60
Light field guns 126
Baranovsky guns 15
87-millimetre Chinese field guns 4
6-inch field howitzers 24
3-line machine-guns 30
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Total 259
On the sea front, the following guns taken from the ships had been
mounted opposite the entrance to the inner roads:
Lighthouse Battery 2 120-millimetre guns
Golden Hill Battery 2 120-millimetre guns
Electric Cliff 2 37-millimetre guns
Battery 16 5 Canet guns
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Total 11
Total on sea front and in Bays:
Guns 37
Machine-guns 3
Grand total in Fortress:
Guns 362
Machine-guns 33
Of ammunition, all batteries on the land front had 200 and on the
sea front 200 or 300 rounds per gun ready. There were also 50 rocket
troughs on the former.
The whole perimeter of the Fortress with regard to artillery was
divided as follows:
(_a_) _Sea Front_.
Section 1 Sectors 1 and 2
Section 2 Sectors 3 and 4
(_b_) _Land Front_.
Section 3 Sectors 6 and 7
Section 4 Sectors 8, 9, and 10
Section 5 Sectors 11 and 12
_Kinchou._
The following were sent to and mounted on the Kinchou position in
February:
42-line guns 2}
6-inch field howitzers 6}
Light field guns 16}
Chinese 87-millimetre quick-firing guns } 44 guns
12}
Chinese 87-millimetre guns 8}
3-line maxims 6
Rocket troughs 8
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